In the News

Posted at 9:25 am on Friday, May 30, 2008, in In the News, and tagged 2008, buffalo, hillary clinton, iraq, media, obama.

- I live in a new urbanist neighborhood in the bay area, so I am biased on the subject, but it seems that my hometown (and the surrounding Buffalo region) is having a difficult time accepting the concept of walkable communities, which is a shame.

- Hillary Clinton won California — somewhat handily — in the February primary, but Barack Obama “is now preferred as the party nominee by a landslide 51 to 38 percent,” undercutting the New York senator’s argument that she is more electable in the general election.

- The press should stop covering the stupid things that stupid pastors say. Pastors are inconsequential. (And god doesn’t exist. There, I said it.)

- And aside from moderating the worst debate in modern history just last month, ABC News’ Charlie Gibson claims that the press did nothing wrong in the run-up to the Iraq war. “I think the questions were asked [before the war began]. It was just a drumbeat of support from the administration. It is not our job to debate them. It is our job to ask the questions.” You’re right, it is not your job to debate them. But it is your job to question their answers. And that is where the media failed.

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